Inspiration

Hip surgery. A packed schedule. Neither of these are enough to stop Deb Wordingham, computer lab assistant at Naples Elementary School, and Lisa Geary...

Get your screening. Get your reward. That’s part of the premise for the UR Medicine Employee Wellness pilot program designed to improve health and wel...

Most people look at Jan. 1 as the beginning of a new year. Not Ashleigh Gerstner, Special Education teacher at North Rose-Wolcott Central School Distr...

Every day, as they walk into the building, staff and students at New Castle Area School District’s George Washington Intermediate School can’t help bu...

Inspiration can be found in the least likely of places. When he was in fourth grade, Jordan Geist, now a senior at Knoch High School in the South Butl...

It was May 2003. Maggie Spuhler, now a grade school teacher at Wheatland-Chili Central School District, was in her freshman year at State University o...

Schools are busy places. Activities, testing, presentations, lunches, assemblies—the daily hum keeps most of the staff on their feet all day, every da...

Lori Rieger’s family has a long history of breast cancer. Her mother, Lois Seelman, was diagnosed when she was 47. And Seelman was only 9 when her mot...

At one time, Jeff Taylor, 59, would have made the cover of a health magazine. Taylor ran the New York City Marathon. He climbed a trail on the Grand C...

You’ve said sayonara to summer. And it’s about to get cold and damp outside. So what? That doesn’t mean you can’t get out and engage in some physical ...

The J.P. Chase Corporate Challenge has become synonymous with camaraderie, excitement, energy and health. For many Finger Lakes Area School Health Con...

This isn’t your typical Olympic story—you know, the one where the child practices for years and years until he finally makes it to the big event. Ben ...

The coach who turned the Mars Area High School varsity football program into a perennial winner after two 0-10 seasons 25 years ago, was inducted June...

Some 5K runs are about pounding the pavement to have a good time. The UV Splash 5K at West Middlesex Junior/Senior High School in June was more focuse...

In May, Union Area School District, in New Castle, celebrated its 10th annual Relay for Life, to benefit the American Cancer Society. More than 650 pa...

Judging by the name, Girls on the Run may simply sound like a running group, but the organization and its mission go far beyond running. The 12-week a...

It’s Monday morning. Summer is over, and the kids are filing into the school building after being out for three months. For many of these students, it...

In November 2010, Amy Richmond, first grade teacher with Wheatland-Chili Central School District, was reassuring her older sister Kris that her sister...

Summer is jam-packed with excitement and fun. But between water parks, picnics, baseball games and the Fourth of July, sometimes the sunshine months f...

Students, school faculty and staff, and community members can now get more outdoor exercise thanks to the Apollo-Ridge Community Fitness Trail, locate...